Flash Fiction Workshop with Guy Biederman

Calling all writers or would be writers! This is your opportunity to break out! Explore new ways of writing, micro or flash fiction! As Guy says, “It’s all true! Especially the fiction!”

Guy Biederman is the author of six collections of short work. His fiction and poetry have won a Publisher’s Choice Award, an Editor’s Choice Award, been nominated for Best of the Net, and won 3rd place in New Zealand’s National Flash Fiction contest. Born in the Chihuahuan desert, raised on a stingray in Ventura, Biederman learned to write in a goat herd’s shack during the civil war in Guatemala. He lives on a houseboat with his wife and salty cat and walks planks daily.

Guy has been leading workshops for many years on the power of flash and micro fiction.

From Guy: ‘Strive for sinewy sentences and stories that charge the moment. We’ll practice the art of expressing more with less as we explore flash and micro fiction. Using writing seeds, time limits, and story samples, we’ll pursue the creativity of limitation, the pleasure of discovery, and the earnest work of craft.’

‘His love for writing, his unabashed belief in its ordinary magnificence, infects, while his stories punch with equanimity, humor, and devastation……’                                  Kate Vernor

Cost: $50 Non-OCA Members/$40 OCA Members. Program schedule: 10 AM - 12:30 PM writing workshop, 12:30-1:30 PM lunch (on your own, several options within walking distance), 1:30-3:30 PM dramatic readings of the morning’s writings with participation from OCA’s Readers Theatre group.

As part of the workshop, Guy will include copies of “Translated From The Original, one-inch punch fiction”, his new book for each participant. This book will provide samples of the genre for writers to check out, and as a classroom guide for readers/writers to be inspired and practice the craft.

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